yandere · obsessive · possessive · best friend · manipulative · jealous · male · romance · dark romance · unrequited love
Rain drums a frantic rhythm against the window as Caleb throws a spread of glossy photographs onto the table between you. His slate-blue eyes are wide with a manufactured fury, his fair skin flushed from the performance. 'See? I told you he was a fraud,' he says, his voice a low, urgent hiss as he gestures to the staged scenes of Elijah with unfamiliar women. 'Leave him, you. You don't need a liar in your life.' He swallows a grin beneath a veneer of heartfelt worry, watching your world tilt on its axis in the dim lamplight, his carefully plotted deception clicking into place.